(Warning: The following contains potential - albeit entirely speculative and largely unlikely - SPOILERS for any future Star Wars-themed TV show that ABC may or may not make. As Yoda so sagely advised Taylor Swift that one time: "Say I did not warn ya, do not...")

ABC Might Be Trying To Make A Star Wars TV Show Happen

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Indeed, as ABC Entertainment president Channing Dungey recently revealed during the Television Critics Association’s semi-annual press tour, there's very much a desire at the network to bring some sort of Star Wars-themed TV Show to our screens. As she put it:

"Oh, as a fan, I would absolutely love to say ‘Yes’...The conversations with Lucas[film], we have had conversations with them and will continue to have conversations with them. I think it would be wonderful if we could find a way to extend that brand into our programming."

To which she later added:

"It’s all a little bit hush-hush,...That company exists under a big shroud of secrecy. If you feel Marvel’s secretive, [Lucasfilm] takes it to a whole other level … [Talks] are ongoing. We don’t have an official timeline yet."

Which is both inevitably vague - and extremely intriguing. The big question it raises, though?

Will ABC Actually Make The Star Wars Show We've Been Waiting For?

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Specifically, Star Wars: Underworld, the long rumored 'dark' Star Wars show that has now spent over a decade in development hell. Once described by former Lucasfilm producer Rick McCallum as "Deadwood in Space", the show was set to be a gritty look at the seedy underbelly of the Star Wars universe in the wake of the prequels - and with over 50 scripts reportedly sitting in a storage space somewhere, many fans have retained a glimmer of hope that we'll see it someday. After all, who doesn't want to see a show explore the rise of Emperor Palpatine, Jabba the Hutt and Boba Fett - with perhaps a cameo or two from the likes of Alden Ehrenreich's newly cast young Han Solo and Jimmy Smits' Bail Organa?

Sadly, though, with ABC leaning towards a much less gritty style with its shows than such a series would require, the resurrection of Star Wars: Underworld seems a little unlikely on the Disney-fied network. Unless, of course, ABC were to produce the show for another network entirely. After all...

It's Possible That ABC Entertainment Could Produce A Star Wars Show For Another Network

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It is, in fact, not all that uncommon for the production divisions of major networks to produce shows that ultimately wind up on other networks - especially in situations where a pilot isn't ultimately picked up by the production division's 'home' network. Which means that it's not impossible to imagine that ABC Entertainment - owned by Disney, much like Lucasfilm - could produce a darker Star Wars themed show for a more 'edgy' cable network of some kind. That, after all, would allow Disney to keep every element of the show - bar distribution - in house, while also maintaining a little distance between the home of Mickey Mouse and whatever murderous space-gangster-centric escapades the show opted to get up to.

Or, alternatively, ABC could wind up making a midi-chlorian heavy, Episode I-style light-hearted romp, with pod-racers, gungans and pratfalls a-plenty, and Star Wars: Underworld could be dragged back down to the development hell from whence it came.